Noodles34

what a load of (as you put it) "guff"

Sorry, just to clarify your position - so you would be okay if we were within 10 points of the PO's? At what point did i say that we were a more "unfortunate club" than the likes of Swindon, Millwall....? And who said we were Britains unluckiest football club? However, to clarify my position, if you think that by spending x amount of money can guarantee you 'instant' success then please give me some examples of 'instant' success. We have come from a million miles behind on what Man City had to gain. LIsten if you think AP is not up to it then your are entitled to your opinion (and to be fair, though i do not agree, your argument is a little more constructive than that of GS, he's just a knob), however please convince me that changing AP is the way forward, I go back to consistently the best teams in this country in the last 10 years? Both had the same manager. Thats not to say that AP should stay indefinately, but less than a season? Who else do you expect to come here with a better track record? Mourinio? Please give some long term solutions to your short term concerns.

sorry for being wrong about Fergie, that clearly makes all the difference! So what was our target at the start of the season? Was it seriously the PO's, if it was then whoever set it knows F all about football. Jesus, after what we (the fans, the players and most importantly the infrastructure) have gone through in the last 4 years you really think having AP as manager and buying Ricky Lambert should suddenly make us at least the 2nd best team in the league (the gap between 2nd and 6th being the 10 point we lost) immediately, deluded my friend, deluded!

Exactly! This is how GS would do it, AP is rubbish, get rid. New Manager, new players etc, six months we are mid table and so get rid, new manager, new players, 6 months in, 10th, get rid. We had someone here like that before, he was well great that bloke!

Man Utd didn't start with - 10 points, a new manager and a new owner, correct me if i am wrong but didn't Fergie nearly get them relegated in his first year? Chelsea have hardly spent a penny this year and City, well on yours and GS's theory should be 10 points clear of the EPL, so it is relative.

sorry, you haven't answered the question....

Its relative to the division you knob

what a knob! So successful you spend most of your time on here eh? Probably cruising Facebook etc as well. But maybe i am wrong about you? What are you/have you been so successful at please?

We can't win ugly or dirty and until we can (we need different players to do this at times) we will struggle at the away days of Exeter, Wycombe and Tranmere. Its a simple observation really, there is no other answer. Hopefully AP knows it too otherwise we are ****ed in this league for a long time!

well said Martin!

Yeah, they should be getting out the flask and tartan blanket....

Didn't he die?

I saw that incident, he was hardly attacked, jostled maybe to let someone go who had thrown something at a police horse and then he (the cop) stood back with his arms in the air looking very uneasy (he was a PSCO or whatever those fake ones are called). It was an interesting sight to say the least!

+1 ...

Funnily enough i ran into Nick at the Ticket Office yesterday, hadn't seen him for a long time, had a quick chat about things (we go back to the gool old days of proper (paper reading material) fanzines), nice guy and just doing his best for Saints fans etc. Why on earth people come on here and slag him off for talking to the media (who have no doubt called him) is absolutely ridiculous! Whether he runs the Saints trust or SISA, WHO CARES! God if the likes of SRS are so jealous of him being in the limelight then ring the BBC or Meridian or Sky yourself and put your name forward but please don't come on here bleeting about someone saying something about Saints, and above all.... He is right in what he is saying!

Yeah, thats why you're constantly moaning about how bad things are eh? How do you spell 'hypocryte'?

Freda Payne - Band of Gold is my choice, maybe its not classed as NS, don't know but a classic to me. Anyway, as someone too young to have been around then its nice to read about the old days following Saints when football 'was' football and the fans were blokes who liked to have a good time and stuck together. I don't think today you get the characters in the fans, its all a bit too 'family' orientated or you get a bunch of 'yoof' who "run on home to their mum". Listen I'm not knocking women and kids etc but I would have loved to follow Saints in the 70's watching the honest 'British' players playing, yeah they might still have been on a few quid more than the mortals but it wasn't so disproportionate like today. Maybe someone could write a book on the 70's away day adventures etc, that would be a good read for those who were there and those who sadly will never get the chance.

sorry, but i can't understand how we have lost this game in hand? If we had won, we would have had 2 games in hand but because we lost now we only have one?? Is this new FL rules or something? Confused...... Oh, and Alpine, be sure to be up early tomorrow morning, apparantly AP is going to talk about how great chocolate is, and no doubt you'll be around to tell us all how great its actually not!

Blessed are the peacemakers

why don't you and Glasgow go and support Man Utd with the otrher glory hunters who want nothing but instant success, you could even go down the road!

Ill get my coat, how long is from Soton to Tranmere?

Is this place for real? How good would it be if we all met up there before the game and had a sing song and a nice cup of tea!

Anyone know what the score was there, he clearly didn't like them and they clearly didn't like him, am I missing something obvious?

Don't supose anyone knows what happened to that idiot? I don't know whether he was really a Skate or some Town fan who thought it would be funny, guess he didn't think it was so funny whilst being dragged out by the OB! Which gets me thinking back to an idiotic thing I did once at Fratton Park. Thought it would be good (I was about 20 ish) to go with this girl to watch a friendly, they were playing Spurs (I really don't know why i went) and I thought I'd wear my Saints shirt in with the Spurs lot. You can imagine the grief I got and the Spurs fans' were hardly sympathetic. In the end I was genuinely scared stiff and left at HT and got out okay. So I know what it takes to be such an absolute knob head to do what that ***** did last night. Finally, I see he was thrown out, on what grounds (please don't say St Marys!)? I reckon he obviously resisted the stewards etc and then the OB came up but say he was polite to the stewards and put his coat back on, would he be allowed to carry on being there or would it tantamount to 'incitement'. One thing he did do though was got the atmosphere going at the very least! Cause it was a bit flat prior to that.

I'll stick by what i said